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The Gun And The Pen : Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, And The Fiction Of Mobilization

Attribution
Keith Gandal
Publication Details
Book, Oxford University Press, 2008
Availability
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS374.W65 G36 2008 AVAILABLE
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Description
By bringing to light previously unexamined archival records of the Army, The Gun and the Pen demonstrates that the frustration of these authors’ military ambitions took place in the forgotten context of a whole new set of methods employed in the mobilization for the Great War–unprecedented procedures that aimed to transform the Army into a meritocratic institution, indifferent to ethnic and class difference (though not racial, or black-white, difference). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Gandal, Keith
Subject
Contents
- Rethinking post-World War I classics: recovering the historical context of the mobilization
- Methodology and the study of modernist fiction
- The Great Gatsby and the great war army: ethnic egalitarianism, intelligence testing, the new man, and the charity girl
- The Sun also rises and "mobilization wounds": emasculation, joke fronts, military school wannabes, and postwar Jewish quotas
- The sound and the fury and military rejects: the feebleminded and the postmobilization erotic triangle
- Postmobilization romance: transforming military rejection into modernist tragedy and symbolism
- Postmobilization kinkiness: Barnes, West, Miller, and the military’s frankness about sex and venereal disease
- The sound and the fury redux and the end of the World War I mobilization novel
ISBN
- 9780195338911
- 019533891x
- 019533891x
LCCN
- 2007039406
Open Library ID
- /b/OL17069389M